An exotic South American city, the soul and sensuality of Brazilian culture, an undying devotion to saving the rainforest—this novel’s...
David Wojnarowicz's art has generated a lot of vital, intelligent discussion over the last thirty years, but his life has always been a bit of a mystery, which is why Fire in the Belly is so important. Read More
What do “The Man in the Arrow Shirt” and the original “Blue Haired Lady” have in common? As Rodger Streitmatter...
Double Life (Magnus Books) is the autobiography of two men : Alan Shayne, an actor, casting agent and producer, and Norman Sunshine, a painter, editor and sculptor... Read More
A secular Jew and a lapsed Christian walk into a bar…. Though it may sound like a joke, Gideon Lewis-Kraus is (mostly) serious in his exploration of faith and purpose, A Sense of Direction. Read More
Tea Leaves (Bella Books), by Janet Mason, is a memoir that offers the reader an intimate record of three generations of...
Lisa Cohen’s lush biography, All We Know (Farrar Straus and Giroux), is a staggering labor of love that offers a triptych of three women of a queer persuasion. Cohen sets this story in the early 20th century, giving her audience a catalogue of the largely forgotten life during that time. Her subjects--the great intellectual Esther Murphy, the celebrity connoisseur Mercedes de Acosta, and the fashion maverick Madge Garland... Read More
Fans of Hollywood, once content with maps detailing the homes of movie stars, now prefer detailed flow charts of the...
The title of Alison Bechdel’s novel riffs off P.D. Eastman’s book Are You My Mother?, an easy-reader many babyboomers who...
Spanning the breadth of her parents’ tumultuous relationship and ending with the aftermath of her mother’s death, author, therapist, and...
